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B6 Tuesday, Feb. 10, 1998 LOCAL Daita Press Howard L. Robinson Deaths AMBROSE, Sally BUNYON, Dorothy M. CAPPS, Betty CARTER, Cleveland R. ELLIOTT, Albert F.

GREENE, Evelyn D. HARDRATH, Gladys T. HARRIS, Ethel HARRIS, Percy HICKS, Bertie M.D. HIGGINS, Mary C.K. HIGGINS, Stanley Jr.

HYATT, Teddy R. JAMES, Maria LIPES, Cassie M. NARWOOD, Annie R. OBER, Eleanor W. PRESSEY, Curtis P.

ROBINSON, Howard SEABOLT, Dale P. SWEAT, Edna D.Y. THOMPSON, Jerry W. VEACH, Donald M. WALTERS, Martha J.

WELTY, Roy A. WILLIAMS, Helen H. Smith and Gladys Rebecca Young, both of Bedford, his brother, Marl R. Veach of New Enterprise, and his companion, Elinor D. Veatch of Newport News, and her daughters, Sandra Veatch Freeman of Columbia, S.C, and Danalouise Veatch Chapman of Raleigh, S.C.

The family will receive friends Tuesday from 3 to 4 p.m. at Peninsula Funeral Home. A funeral service will be held at 4 p.m. at the funeral home. Burial will take place in Mummerts Cemetery, East Berlin, Pa.

Martha J. Walters NEWPORT NEWS Martha Jenkins Walters, age 77, died Sunday, Feb. 8, 1998. A native of Carrsville, she had been a Peninsula resident since 1946. Mrs.

Walters was a member of Temple Baptist Church and had been a teacher for the Newport News public school system, teaching at Deer Park Elementary School for 30 years before retiring. She is survived by her husband of 54 years, Robert C. Walters; one son, Vann Walters of Newport News; three daughters, Judy Ogle-tree of Springfield, Susan Bosse of Woodside, and Kathy Green of Fairfax Station; one brother, Julian C. Jenkins Jr. of Windsor; and four grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.

A funeral service will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 10, at 7 p.m. at the W.J. Smith Son Funeral Home 'Chapel with the Rev. David B.

Simmons officiating. The family will receive friends after the service until 8:30 p.m. Burial will be in the Peninsula Memorial Park Cemetery at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 11.

Arrangements by W.J. Smith Son Funeral Home. Roy A. Welty WILLIAMSBURG Roy Andrew Welty, 64, a hotel and restaurant manager, died Monday, Feb. 9, 1998.

Arrangements by Bucktrout of Williamsburg Funeral Services. Helen H. Williams LANEXA Helen Hazelwood Williams, 88, died Monday, Feb. 9, 1998, in Williamsburg. A lifelong resident of New Kent County, Mrs.

Williams was the widow of Richard Thomas Williams. She was a member of Liberty Baptist Church, where she sang with the choir. She had worked as a seamstress for several area dry cleaners. She is survived by a daughter, Norma June Cecil; several nieces and nephews; and a cousin, Eddie B. Hazelwood.

A funeral service will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 11, at 2 p.m. at Liberty Baptist Church with Dr. George Barnes officiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery.

The family will receive friends at Bucktrout of Williamsburg on Tuesday from 7 to 9 p.m. Memorials may be made to the Endowment Fund at Liberty Baptist Church. Arrangements by Bucktrout of Williamsburg. Compiled by Jennifer Phillips her parents, William and Viola Thor. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Janice and Ron Kempf of Franklin, and her son and daughter-in-law, Bill Hardrath and Debbie Haley of Des Moines, Wash.

A funeral service will be conducted at Emmanuel Lutheran Church at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 1 1 by the Rev. Paul F. Napier.

Burial will follow in Parklawn Memorial Park in Hampton. The family will receive friends this evening in Lawrence B. Wood Funeral Home from 7 to 8:30. She will be greatly missed by her family and by a wide circle of friends in the community. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society or Emmanuel Lutheran Church.

Ethel Harris NEWPORT NEWS Ethel Lee Kinsley Harris, 92, died Sunday, Feb. 8, 1998, at Northampton Convalescent Center. A native of Rennick, W.Va., she was a Peninsula resident for 15 years. Survivors include one daughter, Dorothy Lee Harris Zehmer of Newport News; three grandchildren, James B. Zehmer of Burmingham, A.

Lee Zehmer of Monroe, N.C., and John K. Zehmer of Williamsburg; two great-grandchildren, Madison Lee Zehmer and Kinsley Ann Zehmer, both of Monroe, N.C. The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Weymouth Funeral Home. Graveside services will be conducted 2 p.m.

Friday by the Rev. Randolph Harrison, retired pastor of the Lexington Presbyterian Church, in Evergreen Burial Park, Roanoke. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society, 729 Thimble Shoals Suite 3-C, Newport News, Va. 23606. Percy L.

Harris WEST POINT Percy Lewis Harris, 63, died Monday, Feb. 9, 1998. He is survived by a daughter, Connie L. Taylor of West Point; son, Danny Harris of King and Queen; three sisters, Bell Humphries of Richmond, Betty Smith of Skipwith and Annie LeGay of Oklahoma; and three grandsons. A funeral service will be conducted at 1 1 a.m.

Wednesday at Vincent Funeral Home, West Point. Burial will be in Sunny Slope Cemetery. The family will receive friends tonight from 7 to 9 p.m. at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to West Point Volunteer Fire and Rescue Box West Point, Va.

231 81 Bertie M.D. Hicks NORFOLK Bertie Mae Davis Hicks, 70, a native of Princess Anne County, died Feb. 8, 1998. She was a member of Charity United Methodist Church. She was the widow of John W.

Hicks. She is survived by two daughters, Helen Parlette of Kill Devil Hills, N.C, and Jo Ann Moore, and her husband, Terry, of Newport News; son, William Hicks of Norfolk; two grandsons; and one brother, William H. Davis of Virginia Beach. A memorial service will be held on Sunday, Feb. 15, at 3 p.m.

at Woodlawn Funeral Home with the Rev. Dr. William Lockwood of Colony Friends Church officiating. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Arthritis Foundation, Virginia Chapter, 900 Com- World War II and then in the Marine Corps in the Korean War and was a member of the American Legion Post 31. Mr.

Hyatt is survived by his wife Marie Deel Hyatt; two daughters, Brenda Ledbetter of Newport News and Linda Hatherley of Spring, Texas; one son, Jimmy Hyatt of Newport News; one sister, Louise Brummitt of Coeburn; one brother, H.L Hyatt of Norton; and 12 grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and two more expected soon. A funeral service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 11, at R. Hayden Smith Funeral Home by the Rev.

David Bounds with interment to follow in Veterans Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends Tuesday from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the funeral home. Arrangements by R. Hayden Smith Funeral Home.

Maria L. James HAMPTON Maria L. James, wife of Oliver James, died on Sunday, Feb. 8, 1998. Arrangements by Cooke Bros.

Funeral Chapel. Cassie M. Lipes NEWPORT NEWS Cassie McCartney Lipes, 92, died Monday, Feb. 9, 1998, at St. Francis Nursing Center.

Mrs. Lipes was a member of Chestnut Memorial United Methodist Church. The family will receive friends Wednesday from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Peninsula Funeral Home. A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m.

Thursday at the funeral home. Burial will follow in Greenlawn Memorial Park. Annie R. Narwood NEWPORT NEWS Annie R. Narwood, mother of Marshell Saunders, died on Sunday, Feb.

8, 1998. Arrangements by Cooke Bros. Funeral Chapel. Eleanor Wister Ober MATHEWS Eleanor Wister Ober, 70, died Feb. 7, 1998, in Gloucester.

A native of Pennsylvania, she resided in Virginia for 41 years, most recently in Hudgins, Mathews County. She was the daughter of Allan and Viola Smith of Swarthmore, Pa. Eleanor attended the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, graduating in 1949. She lived in Norfolk and Virginia Beach before moving to Mathews County in 1 990. Eleanor was active in many art-related activities in the Hampton Roads area and Mathews, teaching children and adults and freelancing artwork for printers and civic projects.

Her love of wild-flowers led her to create pressed flower prints using native flowers from the southeast Virginia countryside. She was a past president and former board member of the Tidewater Artists Association of Norfolk. She was also a member of Kingston Parish Episcopal Church in Mathews and a member of the Mathews Art Group. She was a docent at the Hermitage Foundation Museum in Norfolk and a Realtor in Virginia Beach and Mathews. She was an associate at Carlton Brooks Associates in Mathews until 1997.

Survivors include three brothers, Allan Smith of Wyoming, David Smith of Pennsylvania and Gordon Smith of New Jersey; her husband, Charles Ober of Chesterfield; five children, Christine Bridge of Hudgins, Constance Ober of Port Haywood, Diane Ober of Charlottesville, Lynne Daly of Chesterfield and Jonathan Ober of Mathews; and 1 1 grandchildren. A memorial service will be held Feb. 14 at 1:30 p.m. at Foster-Faulkner Funeral Home, Mathews. Memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer's Association, No.

20 Koger Center, Suite 233, Norfolk, Va. 23502. Curtis P. Pressey WILLIAMSBURG Mr. Curtis P.

Pressey, 74, husband of Mary J. Harris Pressey and father of Thomas Pressey, answered the Master's call on Sunday, Feb. 8, 1998, at James Pointe Care Center. He is also survived by his sisters, brothers and a host of other loving relatives and friends. A funeral will be held at 2 p.m.

on Wednesday at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church with the Rev. Ronald Ellis and the Rev. William Bassett officiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Family and friends will assemble at the church by 1 :45 p.m.

on Wednesday. Viewing will be at the church starting at noon on Wednesday until the time of the service. Services under the direction of Whiting's Funeral Home, Williams- SMITHFIELD The Rev. Howard Robinson, 75, husband of Estelle V. Robinson, died Monday, Feb.

9, 1998. Arrangements by Pretlow and Chapman Funeral Home, Smith-field. Dale P. Seabolt NEWPORT NEWS Dale P. Seabolt, 66, died Sunday, Feb.

8, 1998, at home after a lengthy illness. A native of Erwin, N.C, he was a Newport News resident for 47 years. Mr. Seabolt was a graduate of Newport News Shipbuilding Apprentice School and retired in 1997 as a nuclear inspector for the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. after 46 years of service.

He was a member of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. Preceded in death by his father, Clyde Seabolt; his mother and stepfather, Margaret and James Adams; and son, Steven James Seabolt, he is survived by his beloved wife of 44 years, Josie Selby Seabolt; one son, Robert Seabolt, and his wife, Robin, of Richmond; two daughters, Susan Munnerlyn of York County and Jane S. Clevinger, and her husband, Brian, of Poquoson; one brother, Arthur L. Seabolt, and his wife, Doris Ann, of Durham, N.C; and four grandchildren, Lauren Munnerlyn, Caroline and Meredith Seabolt and Sara Clevinger.

The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Weymouth Funeral Home. Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Wednesday by the Rev. Marlowe Iverson, rector of St.

Stephen's Episcopal Church, at the Weymouth Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will be in Peninsula Memorial Park. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Riverside Hospice Program, 500 J. Clyde Morris Newport News, Va. 23601; or the St.

Stephen's Episcopal Church Building Fund, 372 Hiden Newport News, Va. 23606. Edna D.Y. Sweat NORFOLK Edna Dorcas Yarbro Sweat, 91, formerly of 5900 Oetjen died Feb. 8, 1998, in Newport News.

A native of Lexington, N.C, she was the widower of James Foster Sweat. She was a charter member of Alder-sgate United Methodist Church in Norfolk. She is survived by one son, James Presson Yarbro, and his wife, Phyllis, of Newport News; seven grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and nine great-great-grandchildren; and son-in-law, James A. Ruscoe of Virginia Beach. She was also preceded in death by a daughter, Mary Edna Ruscoe.

A funeral service will be held on Thursday, Feb. 12, at 2 p.m. at Hol-lomon-Brown Funeral Home Indian River Chapel by the Rev. Robert P. Lockwood.

Burial will be in Woodlawn Memorial Gardens. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Aldersgate United Methodist Church, 5767 Selger Drive, Norfolk, Va. 23502. Jerry W. Thompson NEWPORT NEWS Jerry W.

Thompson died Sunday, Feb. 8, 1998, at Sentara Hampton General Hospital. Arrangements by Gilmore's Funeral Home. Donald M. Veach NEWPORT NEWS Donald Matthew Veach died Friday, Feb.

6, 1998, at home. He had been a Peninsula resident for 24 years. Mr. Veach retired as a dairy farmer and had served in the U.S. Air Force during World War II.

He is survived by his son, Arley C. Veach, his wife, Louise, and their children, Vashti Sue, Susanna, Sarah, Abigail, Andrew and Lydia, all of East Berlin, Pa. Other survivors include sons, Keith C. Veach of Pittsburgh, Pa, Terrance Veach of Lake Jackson, Texas, Loren D. Veach of Dover, N.J.; daughters, Kay A.

Fitzgerald of Roxbury, and Audrey G. Stull of Chambers-burg, his sisters, Fern Elizabeth Continued from B5 Mary C.K. Higgins MATHEWS Mary Claudine King Higgins, 66, of Port Haywood, died Saturday, Feb. 7, 1998. She was a native of Burnsville, N.C., a Peninsula resident for 43 years and a resident of Mathews County for the past three and a half years.

She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-Day Saints, Hampton, where she was extremely active teaching Sunday school, primary and genealogy. She was a beloved mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She was preceded in death by her husband, Luther Higgins, and a son, Michael Luther Higgins. She is survived by her daughters and sons-in-law, Jonnie and Perry Mason Forrest, with whom Mary lived, of Port Haywood, Revonda and James Pucci of Hampton and Lynda and Stan Stal-naker of Newport News; son and daughter-in-law, Chuck and Pat Higgins of Newport News; two sisters, Helen Banks of North Carolina and Zulene Gardner of North Carolina; and six granddaughters, four grandsons, one great-granddaughter and three great-grandsons. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at 2 p.m.

at the Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints, Todds Lane, Hampton. Burial will follow in the Hampton Memorial Gardens Cemetery. The family will receive friends Tuesday evening from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Foster-Faulkner Funeral Home, Mathews, and also Wednesday from 1 to 2 p.m. at the church.

Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society, 2730 Ellsmere Norfolk, Va. 23513. Dorothy M. Bunyon PORT ST. JOE, Fla.

Dorothy Mae Bunyon, 52, died Thursday, Jan. 22, 1998, at her home. Arrangements were by Battle Memorial Funeral Home, Panama City, Fla. Gladys T. Hardrath HAMPTON Gladys Thor Hardrath, 75, died Sunday, Feb.

8, 1998. She was a native of Two Rivers, and had been a Hampton resident for 50 years. She was the widow of Herbert Frank Hardrath. Mrs. Hardrath retired from Kecoughtan High School as a secretary in the guidance office in 1982 after 13 years of service.

She was a 50-year member of Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Hampton, the LWML and the Lydia Circle. She volunteered at the Hampton Public Library and NASA in the publications branch. She was preceded in death by Today AMBROSE, Sally 8 p.m. at Province Funeral Home; burial in Gum Hill Cemetery on Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. BROWN, W.

Murray 2:30 p.m. at Hogg Funeral Home, Gloucester Point; burial in Rosewell Memorial Garden Cemetery. BUTLER, Virgie 2 p.m. in Holly Lawn Cemetery. CRAWFORD, Grace 2 p.m.

in Parklawn Memorial Park. GERARD, Carolyn W.B.: 4 p.m. at Peace Lutheran Church, Charleston, S.C.; burial in Dorchester Memory Gardens, Summerville, S.C. GREEN, Mary 2 p.m. at Westville Christian Church, Mathews; burial in the Green Family Cemetery.

GRISSOM, Reba 2 p.m. at Riverside Baptist Church; burial in Peninsula Memorial Park. HUNT, Vena: 1 p.m. at Rising Star Baptist Church, Smithfield; burial in Macedonia Cemetery, Carrollton. JOYNER, Shirley 11 a.m.

in Williamsburg Memorial Park. SMITH, Irene noon at Weymouth Funeral Home; burial in Peninsula Memorial Park. VEACH, Donald 4 p.m. at Peninsula Funeral Home; burial in Mum-merts Cemetery. WALTERS, Martha 10 a.m.

in Peninsula Memorial Park. ATKINS, Theodore 11 a.m. at Smith Brothers Funeral Home; burial in Hampton Memorial Gardens. WEAVER, Mae 7 p.m. at Peninsula Funeral Home.

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Arrangements by Woodlawn Funeral Home. Stanley Higgins Jr. NEWPORT NEWS Mr. Stanley Higgins 63, a lifelong Peninsula resident, died Saturday, Feb. 7, 1998.

A U.S. Navy veteran of the Korean Conflict, Mr. Higgins was a production manager with the former Newport News Coca-Cola Bottling Co. He retired from the city of Newport News Waterworks Department in 1996 as a meter repair specialist. He is survived by his wife of 42 years, Rose Higgins; two sons, Stan Higgins III and James S.

Higgins and his wife, Robin; a daughter, Tina M. Woods, and her husband, Gary; his parents, Stan and Florence Higgins all of Newport News; two brothers, William Higgins of Valdosta, and Louis Higgins of Duncan, and seven grandchildren. A funeral service will be conducted at 1 1 a.m. Wednesday at Peninsula Funeral Home by the Rev. Charles Shumate.

Burial will follow in Peninsula Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Teddy R. Hyatt HAMPTON Teddy Roosevelt Hyatt, 71 died Saturday, Feb.

7, 1998. A native of Coeburn, he had been a Hampton resident since 1 952 and had retired from the Newport News Shipyard, department X31 in 1992. Mr. Hyatt had served in the Army during Peninsula Memorial Park. WILLIAMS, Dorothy 3 p.m.

at Courtland United Methodist Church; burial in Riverside Cemetery, Court-land. WILLIAMS, Helen 2 p.m. at Liberty Baptist Church; burial in church cemetery. Thursday GREENE, Evelyn 1 p.m. in Rising Sun Baptist Church Cemetery.

UPES, Cassie 2 p.m. at Peninsula Funeral Home; burial in Greenlawn Memorial Park. SWEAT, Edna D.Y.: 2 p.m. at Hol-lomon-Brown Funeral Home; burial in Woodlawn Memorial Gardens. Friday HARRIS, Ethel 2 p.m.

in Evergreen Burial Park, Roanoke. LUNDQUIST, Eugene 11 a.m. at First United Methodist Church; burial in Peninsula Memorial Park at 2 p.m. Saturday BUNYON, Dorothy noon at Bethel Manor Chapel. OBER, Eleanor 1:30 p.m.

at Foster-Faulkner Funeral Home, Mathews. Sunday HICKS, Bertie M.D.: 3 p.m. at Wood lawn i-unerai Home. Alma Rawles Watkins Died February 10, 1967 31 Years Ago Today The family is still sticking together, Alma. The Watkins Family In Loving Memory Of SAMUEL STOKES SR.

DAD Even though you left us on a cold Thursday morning, the memory and love we have for vou continues tn warm Lour hearts. i In Loving Memory Of Hilda P. Brooks We love you so much. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy commeth in the morning. Never a sorrow that He does not carry, because our Cod is there.

Gone but never forgotten. Your Son In Law, Albert E. Cook Sr. In Loving Memory Of Myrtle B. Marshall 3-1-10 2-10-95 Reaching Out Reaching out and touching others is wnat uod intends for us all to do.

Comforting and paving someone's wag made your life more fulfilling and beautiful too. You must haoe been sent from only has a chosen few. A Wife, a Mother and a Grandmother, but most important a Christian too. Your beloved Husband, Children and Grandchildren WEST, John 1 1 a.m. at Hogg Funeral Home, Gloucester Point; burial in Rosewell Memorial Garden.

Wednesday CAPPS, Betty 7 p.m. at Stevens Memorial Baptist Church; burial in Woodlawn Memorial Gardens, Durham, N.C, at 1 p.m. on Thursday. DUNN, James 2 p.m. at Hiden-wood Presbyterian Church; burial in Peninsula Memorial Park.

EUBANKS, Walter 1 1 am at Sed-ley Baptist Church; burial hi Rose-mont Cemetery, Sedley. FRAZIER, Samuel 2 p.m. in Hampton Memorial Gardens. HARDRATH, Gladys 1 p.m. at Emmanuel Lutheran Church; burial in Parklawn Memorial Park.

HARRIS, Percy 1 1 a.m. at Vincent Funeral Home, West Point; burial in Sunny Slope Cemetery. HIGGINS, Mary C.K.: 2 p.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints, Hampton; burial in Hampton Memorial Gardens. HIGGINS, Stanley 11 a.m.

at Peninsula Funeral Home; burial in Peninsula Memorial Park. HYATT, Teddy 2 p.m. at R. Hayden Smith Funeral Home; burial in Veterans Memorial Gardens. PRESSEY, Curtis 2 p.m.

at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church; burial in church cemetery. SEABOLT, Dale at Weymouth Funeral Home; burial in Peninsula Memorial Park. THWEATT, Mary 12:30 p.m. at Peninsula Funeral Home; burial in 4z -v-.